Weird text in Sonic Adventure DLCs

I’m working on a tool to extract SA1 Dreamcast DLC files. While we’ve already gotten most of their data extracted and the content is recreated in the Dreamcast DLCs mod for SADX, I want to make a tool to work with DLC files directly and get everything out – item layout, text data, textures etc. I also want to make it possible to modify and rebuild DLC files.

Now why this is included after some text strings, I’m not sure. Some DLCs just have stuff inserted that makes little sense. Random garbage from memory? Some kind of weird anti-tamper measure? Who knows. Maybe I’ll figure it out eventually.